IT looks like this will be another packed year for Northern Ballet with a big tour in its sights and a wealth of productions for its fans to chose from.
The Leeds-based company will be bringing its latest new ballet for children to Huddersfield in April. Three Little Pigs will play the Lawrence Batley Theatre on April 17 as part of the theatre’s Imagine series.
But there will be lots of opportunities for the company’s many fans to see the dancers in some of Northern Ballet’s most successful ballets.
The company will tour to 35 UK venues with a range of productions which will see the return of that most powerful of heroines, Cleopatra.
Artistic director David Nixon’s new Cinderella will be seen on tour for the first time and Dracula will return to the stage along with festive family ballet Peter Pan.
The company will take A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Great Gatsby on tour once more as well as performing two new Mixed Programmes.
The company flies to China later this month to perform in a number of venues including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
On its return, the company will open its UK season with a revival of Cleopatra, a passionate portrayal of a courageous and compulsive woman whose legacy has inspired generations.
The ballet is set to an original score by Claude-Michel Sch�nberg, whose credits include the hit musicals, Les Mis�rables and Miss Saigon and choreographed by David Nixon.
The production opens at Leeds Grand Theatre on March 6 and is at the Lyceum in Sheffield later the same month.
The company’s new production of Cinderella opened in Leeds last month and tours first in April and then again in the autumn.
The autumn tour opens with Dracula at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in September.
